Recent Posts: CraigM350

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: “But who’s going to listen to some guy in his basement with a coil of copper wire on his roof?” We’ve covered this before, and now here’s the backstory and timeline from NASA Goddard, it’s fun reading. A Detailed Timeline of The IMAGE Mission Recovery The Imager for…

Originally posted on Watts Up With That?: Monitoring Twitter, a number of people are reporting some download sites aren’t working. So, since WUWT has been setup to handle such things (Climategate for example) here is the memo in full. Some might say “Why is WUWT getting into the polictical mess that has nothing to do…

Originally posted on WeatherAction News: Scientists will go to any extreme to get that grant! Not content with the seemingly endless effluent of fear and fakery spewed out of their various orifices, the media have have yet more fear and fakery to spread courtesy of their erstwhile academic colleagues; What I found rather surprising was…

Originally posted on Tallbloke's Talkshop: Getting any response from 13 billion miles away is quite a feat. But what will the aliens make of Chuck Berry? Engineers experience “joy and incredulity” as a successful test extends the life of the farthest human-made object from Earth, reports Sky News. NASA has been able to extend…

This is the amazing design for NASA’s Star Trek-style space ship, the IXS Enterprise – The Washington Post

NASA engineer and physicist Harold White announced a few years ago that he was working on a potentially groundbreaking idea that could allow space travel faster than the speed of light. Yes, like in “Star Trek.”

And now, to boldly go where no designer has gone before, Mark Rademaker — who is collaborating with White — has created a CGI design concept for the “warp ship.” They’re calling it the IXS Enterprise.

I’m glad NASA is doing this kind of research, even though I’m not sure the publicity does enough to make sure people know just how profoundly speculative it is. That said, putting together a visual design, albeit speculative, of how an Alcubierre warp drive interstellar ship might look is pretty interesting. The pictures are high quality and worth…